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The Los Angeles Chapter of Reasons To Believe is going through the RTB video series If God Made the Universe.
If you live in the Los Angeles area, please stop by for the study and some
good Christian fellowship:

Design vs. evolution

Design of the Moon

The giant impactor model for the formation of the
Moon was originally thought to have solved the problem of the Moon's
formation. However, recent computer models show that the models cannot
account for all the characteristics of the Earth and Moon (Earth's
rotation and similarity of the composition of the Earth and Moon). The
fine tuning required has led some scientists to "philosophical disquiet."
Find out why...

Dual coding DNA

The information content in human DNA is enormous, but we are just beginning
to understand how efficiently the DNA is encoded. Scientists originally thought
that only the protein coding DNA, comprising only 3% of the DNA, was useful. The
other 97% of the DNA was thought to be junk. However, the last few decades of
research have shown that the vast majority (>80%) of non-coding DNA is
functional. Scientists have now discovered that some of the protein coding DNA
not only codes for the protein sequence, but simultaneously codes for
sequences that bind transcription factors (proteins that regulate the
transcription and expression of genes). These dual coding sequences have been termed "duons."
Although we have known about transcription factors for decades, scientists
had never thought to look for binding sites within protein coding sequences,
since dual coding was thought unlikely from an evolutionary viewpoint.
However, these duon sequences are ubiquitous! More...

DNA design video

Based
upon duon sequences mentioned above, plus alternative splicing of RNA
transcripts and dual coding alternative reading frames, our new video shows
how human DNA is is optimally designed for life. Many of the design features
were so unexpected that scientists discovered them only recently, since
evolution would never be expected to produce such features. More...

Biblical theology

Noah

With the opening of the Noah movie (no I haven't seen it), there has been
a lot of interest in Noah. Noah was one of the patriarchs of the Bible, who remained faithful to God,
despite the corruption that occurred around him. We know virtually nothing about
Noah's early days. The Bible only mentions that his father, Lamech, named him
Noah (which means "rest"), because "This one will give us rest from our work and
from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed."
Both Christians and Jews recognize Noah as a great man of God, who, despite his
challenges, remained faithful to his calling. More...

Those are the most recent updates and changes since the last e-mail
update. "By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in
reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he
condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is
according to faith." (Hebrews 11:7)

In Christ,Rich Deem

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